by Mitch Randall | Nov 11, 2021 | Opinion
Second Lieutenant Ernest Childers was the first Indigenous person awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II. This is the highest military honor for valor in the U.S., awarded to only 3,525 soldiers since its establishment in 1861. Childers was a...
by Mitch Randall | Mar 18, 2021 | Opinion
In my ancestral language of Muscogee Creek, CVFEKNICETV (juh-fig-nay-je-duh) means “to heal someone or something.” This message greeted my wife and me as we drove up to the Muscogee Creek Hospital in Okemah, Oklahoma, to receive our COVID-19 vaccines. The indigenous...
